Women, Work and the Victorian Periodical : Living by the Press

"Covering a wide range of magazine work by women, including editing, illustration, poetry, needlework instruction and typesetting, this book provides fresh insights into the participation of women in the nineteenth-century magazine industry. The common thread running through the chapters is the question of how women negotiated the relationship between their public and private selves. Quite often, that relationship turns out to be one of tension and contrast. In order to generate an income, women constructed fictional identities and voiced norms and ideals to which they themselves did not always adhere. Restoring a voice to overlooked authors and adopting new perspectives towards canonical figures, this book traces the different ways in which these women reinvented themselves in the press and addresses the various circumstances that led them to do so"-- Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction....Pages 1-8 Women, Work and the Victorian Press....Pages 9-29 Selling Domesticity: Eliza Warren Francis and the Ladies’ Treasury....Pages 30-49 Threads of Life: Matilda Marian Pullan and Needlework Instruction....Pages 50-70 Christina Rossetti and the Economics of Periodical Poetry....Pages 71-91 The Fine Art of Satire: Florence and Adelaide Claxton and the Magazines....Pages 92-114 Back-Room Workers Stepping Forward: Emily Faithfull and the Compositors of the Victoria Press....Pages 115-132 Conclusion....Pages 133-137 Back Matter....Pages 138-189